From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   Mac Breck wrote:   
   > Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >>  "Your Name"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "Smokie Darling (Annie)" wrote in message   
     trag  "Smokie Darling (Annie)"   
   >>>>>> I agree with Ted here. The whole Soran plot was just a device   
   >>>>>> (mcguffin, if I may), the real plot was reintroducing all the   
   >>>>>> characters that most ST viewers "know", and the new interactions   
   >>>>>> based on a certain event that occurred.   
   >>>>> That's not the Kirk that I "know".   
   >>>> Which is why I put it in quotes.  They have the same names, but   
   >>>> because of a certain event, they have changed (some a little, some a   
   >>>> lot).   
   >>> "Certain events"   
   >>> Translation: Nobody in Hollyweird knows (nor cares) how to make real   
   >>> Star Trek any more. In fact few people in Hollyweird know how to   
   >>> make anything at all, so they butcher old shows / movies instead.   
   >> That's exactly the point; they had writers too lazy and intellectually   
   >> dishonest to do their homework.   
   >    
   > ...and they made a TON of money doing that, so what has the audience   
   > taught them?   
   >    
      
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